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Queen's University
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Queens University at Kingston is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841 via a charter issued by Queen Victoria. Queens holds more than 1,400 hectares of land throughout Ontario and owns Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, Queens is organized into ten undergraduate, graduate and professional faculties and schools. The Church of Scotland established Queens College in 1841 with a charter from Queen Victoria. The first classes, intended to prepare students for the ministry, were held 7 March 1842 with 13 students, Queens was the first university west of the maritime provinces to admit women and to form a student government. In 1883, a college for medical education affiliated with Queens University was established. In 1888, Queens University began offering courses, becoming the first Canadian university to do so. In 1912, Queens secularized and changed to its present legal name, Queens is a co-educational university, with more than 23,000 students, and with over 131,000 living alumni worldwide. Notable alumni include government officials, academics, business leaders and 57 Rhodes Scholars, Queens varsity teams, known as the Golden Gaels, compete in the Ontario University Athletics conference of U Sports. Queens was a result of an outgrowth of educational initiatives planned by Presbyterians in the 1830s, a draft plan for the university was presented at a synod meeting in Kingston in 1839, with a modified bill introduced through the 13th Parliament of Upper Canada during a session in 1840. On 16 October 1841, a charter was issued through Queen Victoria establishing Queens College at Kingston. They modelled the university after the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow, classes began on 7 March 1842, in a small wood-frame house on the edge of the city with two professors and 15 students. The college moved several times during its first eleven years, before settling in its present location, prior to Canadian Confederation, the college was financially supported by the Presbyterian Church in Scotland, the Canadian government and private citizens. The college was rescued after Principal William Snodgrass and other created a fundraising campaign across Canada. The risk of financial ruin continued to worry the administration until the final decade. They actively considered leaving Kingston and merging with the University of Toronto as late as the 1880s, with the additional funds bequeathed from Queens first major benefactor, Robert Sutherland, the college staved off financial failure and maintained its independence. Queens was given university status on 17 May 1881, in 1883, Womens Medical College was founded at Queens with a class of three. Theological Hall, completed in 1880, originally served as Queens main building throughout the late 19th century, in 1912, Queens separated from the Presbyterian Church of Scotland and changed its name to Queens University at Kingston

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Richardson Memorial Stadium
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George Taylor Richardson Memorial Stadium is an 8,500 seat Canadian football stadium located on the campus of the Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. It was built in 1971 and is the home of the Golden Gaels football team and it is named in memory of George Taylor Richardson, a Queens graduate renowned for his athleticism and sportsmanship who died in World War I. It is the stadium to bear the name. The original stadium was funded by Georges brother, James Armstrong Richardson, graduate, the stadiums bleachers were deemed structurally unsafe in May 2013, causing 6,500 seats to be removed. Renovations were completed in July 2013, with a new capacity of 8,500 with two new end zone seating sections. In December 2014, a $20.27 million revitalization was announced that will be completed for September 17,2016 for its football game. The original field was located on Union Street at the present site of Mackintosh-Corry Hall and it was opened in 1921 on a piece of land bought from a community of nuns. This field hosted the 1922 Grey Cup, when a new social sciences complex, Mackintosh-Corry Hall was planned, the original stadium was torn down and relocated to the newly acquired West Campus. In 2013, Seating capacity was reduced to 8,500, down from 10,200, plans to reconstruct the 40 year old stadium at the same location were approved in December 2014, with $20.27 million of funding needed. Principal Daniel Woolf stated that the stadium was desperately in need of revitalization, $17 million was raised from donations, inclunding $10 million from former Gaels football player and current Guelph Gryphons head coach Stu Lang. Construction began on December 5,2015 and the stadium re-opened for the beginning of the 2016 football season on September 17,2016, Richardson played host to two World Cup 2006 qualifiers between Canada and Belize in 2004. Canada won both matches 4-0 and progressed to the stage after Belize had forfeited their right to play a home match due to a lack of infrastructure. It hosted the Colonial Cup match between the US Tomahawks and Canada Wolverines on September 19,2010 which was the first international rugby match played in Canada since 1995. On June 9,2012, Canada played the United States in a friendly match, Canada won 28-25 in front of 7,521 spectators

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Kingston, Ontario
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Kingston is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada. It is located on the end of Lake Ontario, at the beginning of the St. Lawrence River. The city is located midway between Toronto and Montreal, the Thousand Islands tourist region is nearby to the east. Kingston is nicknamed the Limestone City because of the heritage buildings constructed using local limestone. This outpost, called Fort Cataraqui or Fort Frontenac, became a focus for settlement, after the British conquered New France, the village was renamed Kingston. Kingston was named the first capital of the Province of Canada on February 10,1841, while its time as a political centre was short, Kingston has remained an important military installation. Kingston was the county seat of Frontenac County until 1998, Kingston is now a separated municipality from the County of Frontenac. A number of origins of Cataraqui, Kingstons original name, have been postulated, one is that it is derived from the Iroquois word that means the place where one hides. The name may also be derivations of Native words that mean impregnable, muddy river, place of retreat, clay bank rising out of the water or where the rivers and lake meet. Cataraqui today refers to an area around the intersection of Princess Street and Sydenham Road, Cataraqui is also the name of a municipal electoral district. Cataraqui was referred to as the Kings Town or Kings Town by 1787 in honour of King George III, the name was shortened to Kingston in 1788. Archaeological evidence suggests that people lived in the Kingston region as early as the Archaic Period, evidence of Late Woodland Period early Iroquois occupation also exists. The first more permanent encampments by aboriginal people in the Kingston area began about 500 AD, the group that first occupied the area before the arrival of the French was probably the Wyandot people, who were later displaced by Iroquoian groups. At the time the French arrived in the Kingston area, Five Nations Iroquois had settled along the shore of Lake Ontario. By 1700, the north shore Iroquois had moved south, european commercial and military influence and activities centered on the fur trade developed and increased in North America in the 17th century. Fur trappers and traders were spreading out from their centres of operation in New France, French explorer Samuel de Champlain visited the Kingston area in 1615. Settlement resumed in the early 1780s when the area soon to be called Kingston became a centre for Loyalist refugees who fled north because of the American Revolutionary War. The survey would also determine whether Cataraqui was suitable as a base since nearby Carleton Island on which a British navy base was located had been ceded to the Americans after the war

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9th Grey Cup
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The 9th Grey Cup was played on December 3,1921, before 9,558 fans at Varsity Stadium at Toronto. Edmonton was the first western team to challenge for the Grey Cup, the Toronto Argonauts shut out the Edmonton Eskimos 23 to 0. Archived from the original on 2010-12-02

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Grey Cup
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The Grey Cup is the name of both the championship game of the Canadian Football League and the trophy awarded to the victorious team playing Canadian football. It is contested between the winners of the CFLs East and West Divisional playoffs and is one of Canadian televisions largest annual sporting events, the Toronto Argonauts have 16 championships, more than any other team. The latest, the 104th Grey Cup, took place in Toronto, Ontario, on November 27,2016, the trophy was commissioned in 1909 by the Earl Grey, then Canadas governor general, who originally hoped to donate it for the countrys senior amateur hockey championship. After the Allan Cup was later donated for that purpose, Grey instead made his trophy available as the Canadian Dominion Football Championship of Canadian football. The trophy has a silver chalice attached to a base on which the names of all winning teams, players. The Grey Cup has been broken on several occasions, stolen twice and it survived a 1947 fire that destroyed numerous artifacts housed in the same building. The Grey Cup was first won by the University of Toronto Varsity Blues, play was suspended from 1916 to 1918 due to the First World War and in 1919 due to a rules dispute. The game has typically been contested in an east versus west format since the 1920s, the Edmonton Eskimos formed the Grey Cups longest dynasty, winning five consecutive championships from 1978 to 1982. While the Stanley Cup was created in 1893 as the Canadian amateur hockey championship, Grey instead offered an award to the Dominion amateur rugby football championship beginning in 1909. He initially failed to follow through on his offer, the trophy was not ordered until two weeks prior to the first championship game. The first Grey Cup game was held on December 4,1909, the trophy was not ready for presentation following the game, and the Varsity Blues did not receive it until March 1910. They retained the trophy in the two years, defeating the Hamilton Tigers in 1910 and the Toronto Argonauts in 1911. The University of Toronto failed to reach the 1912 Grey Cup, the Varsity Blues refused to hand over the trophy on the belief they could keep it until they were defeated in a title game. They kept the trophy until 1914 when they were defeated by the Argonauts, Canadas participation in the First World War resulted in the cancellation of the championship from 1916 to 1918, during which time the Cup was forgotten. Montreal Gazette writer Bob Dunn claimed that the trophy was later rediscovered as one of the heirlooms of an employee of the Toronto trust company where it had been sent for storage. Competition finally resumed in 1920 with the 8th Grey Cup game and it was the University of Torontos fourth, and final, championship. Competition for the Grey Cup was limited to member unions of the CRU, the Western Canada Rugby Football Union joined in 1921, allowing the Edmonton Eskimos to challenge. Facing the Argonauts in the 9th Grey Cup, the Eskimos became the first western team –, the Argonauts entered the game with an undefeated record, having outscored their opposition 226 to 55 during the season

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Queen's Golden Gaels
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The Queens Gaels are the athletic teams that represent Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Team colours are blue, red, and gold and its main home is Richardson Memorial Stadium on West Campus. Their rallying cry is the Oil Thigh, a song sung in Gaelic by spectators when the home team scores a point, goal, touchdown. The song has the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, Queens teams have had a variety of successes on the national and international stages over the universitys history. Mens and Womens Volleyball won OUA Championships in 2012, the name caught on and became the familiar term for Queens teams by the 1950s. Gaels is a reference to Queens Scottish heritage, before 1947, Queens teams were commonly known as The Tricolour. In September 2008, Queens Athletics & Recreation Department began referring to the teams as Queens Gaels. Along with this change, the website was changed from goldengaels. com to gogaelsgo. com, the change was reportedly made to highlight the universitys name in promoting the team, however some have criticised the move as change for the sake of change. Queens University Varsity Baseball Team started competing in the Ontario University Athletics circuit as of 2010, painted on the walls of the Varsity locker room is the word Success followed by the phrase the harder you work, the luckier you get. Queens hosted McGill University at the Kingston YMCA on February 6,1904, McGill won 9-7, after a ten-minute overtime period to break a 7-7 tie. The mens curling team, in 2010, earned the medal at the CIS national championship in Edmonton. The team led by First Team All-Canadian Jonathan Beuk went 5-1 in Round Robin play before beating the Manitoba Bisons in the semi-final, the Gaels qualified for the 2011 World University Games in Erzurum, Turkey where they represented Canada. The team finished fifth after losing a match to the Czech Republic. The Queens Gaels football program is one of the longest-lived and storied in U Sports, the team began organized play in 1883 when the Ontario Rugby Football Union was first founded and won ORFU champions in 1893 and 1894. Queens has competed continuously since 1882, celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2007, the football squad showed continued success, winning three straight Grey Cups in 1922,1923 and 1924. Queens hockey is one of the oldest hockey clubs in the world, only McGill Universitys team, Queens played its first season in 1883-84, with the first game for which records exist played against a team from Petawawa. In the 1890s, Queens played in the Ontario Hockey Association, as Ontario champion, the Queens hockey team was a regular in Stanley Cup Challenge Games by challenging in 1895,1899 and 1906. Queens donated the Queens Cup for annual Ontario University Athletics competition in 1898, in 1902, the Intercollegiate Hockey Union was formed and the Gaels won the title in 1904 and 1906

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4th Grey Cup
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The 4th Grey Cup was played on November 30,1912, before 5,337 fans at A. A. A. The Hamilton Alerts defeated the Toronto Argonauts 11 to 4

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6th Grey Cup
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The 6th Grey Cup was played on December 5,1914, before 10,500 fans at Varsity Stadium at Toronto. The Toronto Argonauts defeated the University of Toronto Varsity Blues 14 to 2, archived from the original on 2010-12-02

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8th Grey Cup
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The 8th Grey Cup was played on December 4,1920, before 10,088 fans at Varsity Stadium at Toronto. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeated the Toronto Argonauts 16 to 3, archived from the original on 2010-12-02

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25th Grey Cup
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The 25th Grey Cup was played on December 11,1937, before 11,522 fans at Varsity Stadium at Toronto. The Toronto Argonauts defeated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 4 to 3, archived from the original on 2010-12-02

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26th Grey Cup
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The 26th Grey Cup was played on December 10,1938, before 18,778 fans at Varsity Stadium at Toronto. The Toronto Argonauts defeated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 30 to 7, archived from the original on 2010-12-02

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33rd Grey Cup
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The 33rd Grey Cup was played on December 1,1945, before 18,660 fans at Varsity Stadium at Toronto. The Toronto Argonauts defeated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 35 to 0, archived from the original on 2010-12-02

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34th Grey Cup
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The 34th Grey Cup was played on November 30,1946, before 18,960 fans at Varsity Stadium at Toronto. The Toronto Argonauts defeated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 28 to 6, archived from the original on 2010-12-02

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35th Grey Cup
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The 35th Grey Cup was played on November 29,1947, before 18,885 fans at Varsity Stadium at Toronto. This was the last Grey Cup to be won by a team with all Canadian players, the Toronto Argonauts defeated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 10 to 9. This was the year in a row that these two teams had met each other for the final game of the season. The game had one of the most exciting finishes in Grey Cup history, Winnipeg had jumped out to a 9 to 0 lead but found the game tied in the last minute. Blue Bombers all-star Bob Sandberg, who had scored his teams touchdown, tried to fake a kick. Argos star Joe Krol scored a final rouge to snatch the victory, the Argonauts were presented with the Grey Cup, which had survived a fire that year when the Toronto Argonauts Rowing Club building had burned down. Archived from the original on 2010-08-23, archived from the original on 2010-12-02

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38th Grey Cup
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The Argonauts won the game 13–0. Argonauts lay claim to the legendary Mud Bowl, on the day before the game, a rare, heavy late November snowfall blanketed the field. Heavy equipment was sent to clear the snowfall before the game, however, the equipment damaged the turf, which was already in bad shape from poor groundskeeping during the regular season. To make matters worse, on the morning of the game the weather turned much warmer, by game time, the field was torn up and soaked with water, with the rain continuing through the entire game. The game was anti-climactic with both teams having difficulty moving the ball in the conditions, winnipegs star quarterback Jack Jacobs fumbled twice in the second quarter and was later pulled from the game in the final quarter for Pete Petrow. It was a game that will be remembered more for its poor field conditions than the game itself. The 1950 Grey Cup, forever dubbed “The Mud Bowl, was won by the Toronto Argonauts, the game featured two teams facing each other for the sixth time in the Canadian football classic. The wet and muddy conditions at Toronto’s Varsity Stadium created a quagmire, the Argos kicked for what turned out to be the winning point in the first quarter. Winnipeg’s Tom Casey misjudged Joe Krols punt from the Blue Bombers 49-yard line, as the ball went over his head, Joe Krol avoided a potential turnover later in the half when he dropped the ball on an attempted kick in Bombers territory. The Argo star picked it up and raced around the end for 10 yards, after failing to make another first down, Nick Volpe kicked a 21-yard field goal to put the Argos up 4-0. Before the end of the first half, the Argos increased the margin to 7-0, Toronto’s Billy Bass recovered Indian Jack Jacobs fumble at the Winnipeg 19. After two running plays from Ulysses Crazy Legs Curtis and Teddy Toogood, Nick Volpe was successful on a goal from the Winnipeg 23. The Argos completed the scoring in the third quarter, Toronto’s Jake Dunlap blocked Jacobs’ kick which the Boatmen recovered at the Winnipeg 20. Billy Bass and Al Dekdebrun carried to the line and Toogood to the one. On third down Dekdebrun slid across the line for the only touchdown of the game. Volpe missed the convert, but Joe Krol later kicked a single for the point of the game. Dekdebrun directed Toronto’s ground offence all game, which steamrolled the Winnipeg defence for 232 yards and this is the last time a team has been shut out in the Grey Cup final. Some believed the game could have played a week earlier to avoid adverse weather conditions

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40th Grey Cup
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The 40th Grey Cup game was the Canadian Football Championship held on 29 November 1952. The Toronto Argonauts defeated the Edmonton Eskimos 21-11 at Torontos Varsity Stadium, an audience of 27391 watched as acting Canadian Prime Minister C. D. Howe opened the game with a ceremonial football kickoff, where Edmonton Mayor William Hawrelak held the ball, hometown coach Frank Clair and his team enjoyed a decisive victory despite trailing in the first quarter. Edmonton coach Frank Filchock was dismissed soon after his teams defeat, first quarter, Normie Kwong earned a touchdown for Edmonton at the 13,05 mark, the only score of the first quarter. Billy Bass earned Torontos second touchdown of the quarter at 13,28, Edmonton was left scoreless in this quarter which ended with a 15-5 Toronto lead. Third quarter, Kwongs second touchdown of the game occurred at 10,24 and converted by Bill Snyder, fourth quarter, Edmonton was shut out in the final quarter as Torontos Zeke OConnor touched down at 9,40, followed by a conversion from Ettinger. This was the first Grey Cup match to be televised as CBC Televisions Toronto flagship station, CBLT, the broadcast was only available locally on CBLT which had only begun broadcasts less than three months earlier. Live network television connections with other CBC stations were not available until 1953, although films of the game were produced for movie theatres. A technical failure prevented viewers from seeing 29 minutes of the game video and this interrupted the telecast during much of the third quarter, although commentator audio was still transmitted. Images were restored into the quarter when CBC technicians repaired the link at the CBCs tower which received the feed from Varsity Stadium. The reported cause of the transmission relay failure was a vacuum tube worth $1.85, despite this setback, this inaugural Grey Cup broadcast was reported to have had the most viewers of any Canadian television production to that date